Shapeshifted: Edie Spence Series, Book 3 by Cassie Alexander

Author:Cassie Alexander [Alexander, Cassie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Caskara Press

Chapter 24

I stared at Luz’s prone form. Could I condemn my mother . . . to this? I didn’t want her to be a vampire, just a daytimer; I wanted her to get just enough blood to be healed and stay that way. But there were no promises after that, no way I could predict how things would go with one hundred percent certainty.

Catrina was waiting outside on the stairs, on the other side of the locked gate. She called out to me. “Get the keys.”

I looked down at Luz again, trying to imagine my mother sleeping there instead of her. “Really?”

“Really.” Catrina crossed her arms.

I slunk back over to Luz and tapped her. She was well and truly gone now—I didn’t know if she was mostly dead, or dead-dead, or what. It was creepy. I reached into her pockets and yanked out the keys too quickly, shaking her. I jumped back, just in case, and then ran back to the doorway.

Catrina snapped her fingers on the other side. “Give them here.”

I imagined her taking them once I did, leaving me locked in here with Luz—there were so many locks, it’d take me hours to free myself on my own. She snapped her fingers again, and I tossed the keys through. From here, I had a good view of the tattoo on her left-hand ring finger’s first knuckle. It looked like a stylized bone.

She began opening the door. I talked while she worked. “Reina said you would help me. She’s looking for someone—”

“I know.” Catrina knelt to get at the last locks on the gate.

“I need something that smells like her, to give to the Hound.” She frowned again at hearing this as I stepped out. I wondered if I would ever see her smile. She closed the door and started relocking the gate.

It wasn’t too late. I could stop Catrina and run back in there and somehow bleed Luz while she slept. But pledging my mother to a vampire that hated her wouldn’t do any good—it was likely to get her killed.

“Come on,” Catrina said as she finished locking the door behind me. She threw the keys back inside, where they clattered on the cement floor and landed by Luz’s thigh. “I’ll take you to her room. We’ll find something for your devil there.” I took one last look at Luz’s sleeping form. I tried to imagine being in love with a vampire, and drew a blank. Anna and I had done right by each other—but love was not the word. Whatever human had cut out that paper heart for Luz was crazy. And brave.

“What was her name, anyhow?”

“Adriana.” Catrina glowered at me. “And she’s my sister,” she said, before going up the stairs.

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